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AFGHANISTAN
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Get Out of Afghanistan
by Charles V. Pena
National Interest
Afghanistan: Groundhog Day
Editorial
The Guardian
America Is Performing Its Familiar Role of Propping Up a Dictator
by Robert Fisk
The Independent
Criminal Justice Rendered Impotent
by Clara Gutteridge
The Guardian
The Tortured Logic Continues
by Amy Goodman
Truthdig.com
Moving Gitmo Detainees to America Is Necessary
Editorial
South Carolina Herald
Hollow Victory
by John J. Mearsheimer
Foreign Policy
The U.S. in Afghanistan: Eight Years and Counting
by Jack A. Smith
Dissident Voice
Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano (Video)
by Jacob Hornberger
Fox News
Keeping Afghanistan Safe from Democracy
by Robert Scheer
Truthdig.com
Unicorns in Kabul
by George F. Will
Washington Post
Karzai's Our SOB Now
Editorial
Boston Herald
Afghanistan a Dangerous Diversion
by Andrew J. Bacevich
The Australian
Opium, Rape and the American Way
by Chris Hedges
Truthdig.com
Afghanistan a Success — Time to Come Home!
by Karen Kwiatkowski
LewRockwell.com
Afghan Insurgents: Terrorists, or Tea Partiers?
by Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com
Transcripts of Defeat
by Victor Sebestyen
New York Times
The Universality of War Propaganda
by Glenn Greenwald
Salon.com
Getting Lost in Afghanistan
by Gilles Dorronsoro
The Guardian
Bring the Troops Home
by Eugene Robinson
Washington Post
Former Marine Captain Resigns in Protest of Afghanistan War
by Glenn Greenwald
Salon.com
High Cost, Low Odds
by Stephen M. Walt
The Nation
Americans Pull Strings in Afghan Election
by Eric Margolis
Toronto Sun
Why Are We Still in Afghanistan?
by Gene Lyons
Salon.com
Western Export of the Ballot Box Elixir Is Pure Hubris
by Simon Jenkins
The Guardian
It Matters Not Whether Obama Sends 20,000 or 40,000 Troops to Afghanistan
by Haroon Siddiqui
Toronto Star
Carrying the Heavy Burden of War
by James Carroll
Boston Globe
War Next Door Creates Havoc in Pakistan
by Eric Margolis
Toronto Sun
In a War for Democracy, Why Worry about Public Opinion?
by Seumas Milne
The Guardian
The Reverse-Midas Effect
by Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com
Too Illegit to Quit
by Ted Rall
Uexpress.com
Saving Face in Afghanistan
by Ron Paul
U.S. House of Representatives
Be Bold, Obama. Resist the Hawks Crying One-Last-Push
by Simon Jenkins
The Guardian
Unintended Consequences in Nuclear Pakistan
by Fred Branfman
Truthdig.com
History Is Repeating Itself
by Nancy T. Lindsay
Milford Daily News
What Lies Beneath the War in Afghanistan
by Eric Margolis
Toronto Sun
Occupying Afghanistan Is Making Things Worse
by Mark Weisbrot
Common Dreams
Fire McChrystal and Get Out of Afghanistan
by Ivan Eland
Independent Institute
Eight Years of Big Lies on Afghanistan
by James Bovard
Future of Freedom Foundation
The Suffocatingly Narrow Afghanistan "Debate"
by Glenn Greenwald
Salon.com
A War of Absurdity
by Robert Scheer
Truthdig.com
Obama and the Afghan Abyss
by Terry Michael
Reason
The Afghan Disaster
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
Ludwig von Mises Institute
McChrystal's Conundrum
by Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com
Eight Years Later: The United States in Afghanistan
by Gabriel Kolko
Counterpunch.org
Fulfill Promise, and Bring Our Troops Home
Editorial
Boston Globe
The Hard and Bitter Truth
by Bob Herbert
New York Times
More than a Numbers Game in Afghanistan
by Eugene Robinson
Washington Post
America Has Been Here Before
by Eric Margolis
Toronto Sun
The Impotent Dictator
by Ted Rall
Uexpress.com
Prolonging Futility in Afghanistan
by Steve Chapman
Reason
To Escalate the Escalation?
by Ivan Eland
Independent Institute
Obama's Quagmire
by Jeffrey T. Kuhner
Washington Times
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the War
by Lewis Grossberger
Newser.com
Let Poppies Grow: Bring Troops Home
by Al Neuharth
USA Today
The Looming Political War Over Afghanistan
by Glenn Greenwald
Salon.com
The Continual Selling of the Afghan War
by William Blum
Foreign Policy Journal
Obama Is Leading the U.S. into a Hellish Quagmire
by Mark Ames
Alternet.org
Obama's Meaningless War
by Robert Scheer
Truthdig.com
Obama's War
by Dave Lindorff
Counterpunch.org
Lesson of Vietnam Lost in Afghanistan
by Stanley Kutler
Truthdig.com
Today's Afghan Election Is a Moment of Truth for Zealous Liberal Aggressors
by Simon Jenkins
The Guardian
What If They Gave a War and Nobody Knew Why?
by Ted Rall
Uexpress.com
Afghan Elections Will Be a Farce
by Eric Margolis
Toronto Sun
Why Policy Matters
by Charles Pena
Independent Institute
When David Fought Goliath in Washington Square Park
by Dwight Garner
New York Times
Special Interests Cash in on Clunker Boondoggle
by Timothy P. Carney
Washington Examiner
West Ignores Lessons of Soviet Humiliation in Afghanistan
by Victor Sebestyen
London Times
War Without Purpose
by Chris Hedges
Truthdig.com
How Many More Will Die before We Withdraw?
by Seumas Milne
The Guardian
Obama Covers Up a Dozen My Lais
by Ted Rall
Uexpress.com
A Quagmire for Obama
by Derrick Z. Jackson
Boston Globe
Countries "Wasting Money and Blood" in Afghanistan
by Sophia Gardner
ABC News
In the Fog, Remember: Victory Is Impossible in Afghanistan
by Matthew Parris
London Times
Obama Must Call Off This Folly Before Afghanistan Becomes His Vietnam
by Simon Jenkins
The Guardian
Forgotten Coverage of Afghan "Freedom Fighters" (2002)
by David N. Gibbs
Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
What War Looks Like
by Chris Hedges
New York Times
Debate: Should the United States Increase or Decrease Its Military Commitment to Afghanistan? (Video)
with Jacob Hornberger, Max Boot, Christopher Preble, and
Larry Goodson
Donald and Paula Smith Foundation
Know When to Walk Away
by Thomas Gale Moore
Antiwar.com
Cambodia Déjà Vu: the Invasion of Pakistan
by William Pfaff
Truthdig.com
On Af-Pak: Stop "Helping"
by Ron Paul
U.S. House of Representatives
Becoming What We Seek to Destroy
by Chris Hedges
Truthdig.com
Conservative Historian Andrew Bacevich Warns Against Obama's Escalation of War in Afghanistan
Democracy Now
The Af-Pak War: War for War's Sake
by Christopher Dowd
The Examiner
Why We Fight: U.S. Troops Die for Rapists
by Ted Rall
Uexpress.com
A Full-Court Press for Pakistan War
by Chris Floyd
Counterpunch
Pakistan Has World's Attention Now
by Eric Margolis
Toronto Sun
Minion of the Long War
by C.G. Estabrook
Counterpunch.org
Af-Pak Fever
by Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com
Operation Incoherence
by Alan Bock
Antiwar.com
The "Long War" Will Be as Pointless and Bloody as Europe's
by William Pfaff
Antiwar.com
Afghan Death Trip
by Ted Rall
Uexpress.com
Another Lost War
by William S. Lind
Counterpunch.org
U.S. Sinking Deeper into Afghan Mess
by Jim Hightower
GoSanAngelo.com
Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President
by Ray McGovern
Consortium News
At Last We Get It -- This War is Vietnam for Slow Learners
by Simon Jenkins
The Guardian
Time to Quit Afghanistan
by Eric Margolis
Toronto Sun
Why Are We "Surging" into Afghanistan?
by Jim Hightower
Alternet.org
Gorby Smarter than Obama
by Eric Margolis
Toronto Sun
America's Confused Cause in Central Asia
by William Pfaff
Truthdig.com
Obama's Afghan Trap
by Amy Goodman
Truthdig.com
Afghan War Takes a Hit
by Eric Margolis
Toronto Sun
Torture, Slaughter, and Lies
by Brian Cloughley
Counterpunch.org
The Libertarian Case against the War in Afghanistan
by David R. Henderson
Canadian Journal of Ideas
The Harsh Lesson of Afghanistan: Little Has Changed in 200 Years
by Ben Macintyre
London Times
How Many Villages Must We Bomb Before We Find Bin Laden?
by William Pfaff
Truthdig.com
Afghanistan: Not a Good War Gone Bad
by Larry Everest
Counterpunch.org
Civilian Dead Are a Trade-Off in Nato's War of Barbarity
by Seumas Milne
The Guardian
The Reality of War in Afghanistan
by Stephen Kinzer
Boston Globe
Casualties of Another War
by Tariq Ali
The Guardian
Why Does the US Think It Can Win in Afghanistan?
by Robert Fisk
The Independent
An Anatomy of Collateral Damage
by Tom Engelhardt
Asia Times
The Government, the Media, and Afghanistan
by Glenn Greenwald
Salon.com
Precision, What Precision?
by Richard Norton-Taylor
The Guardian
Pouring Gas on the Afghanistan Bonfire
by Chris Hedges
Truthdig.com
The Afghan Fire Looks Set to Spread, But There Is a Way Out
by Seumas Milne
The Guardian
Afghanistan: The Brutal and Unnecessary War
by Joshua Holland with
Andy Worthington
Alternet.org
Swan Song for NATO
by Mike Whitney
Counterpunch.org
The War that Can Bring Neither Peace Nor Freedom
by Seumas Milne
The Guardian
Fall Back, Men, Afghanistan Is a Nasty War We Can Never Win
by Simon Jenkins
London Times
The "Good War" Is a Bad War
by John Pilger
JohnPilger.com
We're Losing in Afghanistan Too
by John Kiriakou and Richard Klein
Los Angeles Times
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